ur favorite internet connection ?

Answer 1

sify broadband ..... it is world famous have a look in what countries do we have sify broadband:

Africa
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Egypt
ADSL was introduced commercially to Egypt in 2000. The service was offered in select central offices in big cities such as Cairo and Alexandria and gradually spread to cover many more Governorates of Egypt. There are numerous ISPs in Egypt offering ADSL service although only two companies own the infrastructure and the rest are resellers.

Download/upload speeds are typically:(Monthly Cost)

256/64 kbit/s at a cost of L.E.150 (~US$25)
512/128 kbit/s at a cost of L.E.250 (~US$43)
1024/256 kbit/s at a cost of L.E.425 (~US$73)
2048/512 kbit/s at a cost of L.E.725 (~US$125)
Estimated Number of subscribers: 100,000 according to a statement by Egypt's Communication and Information Technology minister Dr. Tarek Kamel in Ahram newspaper on Sunday 5 March 2006.

The biggest ISPs are:

LinkDotNet - http://www.link.net
TEData - http://www.tedata.net
InternetEgypt - http://www.internetegypt.com
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Morocco
Operated by Maroc Telecom. The service started as a test in November 2002 before it was launched in October 2003. The service is named Menara. It offers the following options:

Menara ADSL 256 kbit/s (around €21)
Menara ADSL 512 kbit/s (around €37)
Menara ADSL 1 Mbit/s (around €45.70)
Menara ADSL 2 Mbit/s (around €55)
Menara ADSL 4 Mbit/s (around €73.50)
The ADSL modem, the installation fees and the first three months are free.

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South Africa
The first package, a 512/256 kbit/s offering, was introduced in August 2002 by national telecoms monopoly Telkom. Later, in response to growing demand for cheaper ADSL options, two more products were introduced: a mid-range 384/128 kbit/s offering, and an entry-level 192/64 kbit/s one. On 1 September 2005 Telkom released its 1 Mbit/s offering.

Products currently available through Telkom SA:

192/64 kbit/s for R270 (~ US$45)
384/128 kbit/s for R359 (~ US$60)
512/256 kbit/s for R477 (~ US$80)
1024/384 kbit/s for R680 (~ US$113)
Note: In South Africa ADSL charges consist of two parts: the ADSL line rental (as shown above), charged over and above the regular analogue phone line rental (R93 / US$15) and an ISP account. The price of an ISP account can vary greatly, ranging from R72 (~US$12) for a 1 GB hardcapped account to R2800 (US$455) for unshaped / uncapped access with a static IP address. Caps of 3 GB, 5 GB, 10 GB, 20 GB and 30 GB are also available through various ISPs.

ADSL prices in South Africa have been decreasing steadily ever since the service was introduced. More dramatic price reductions, mostly as result of consumer action through groups like Hellkom and MyADSL, saw Telkom's ADSL subscriber base climb from 50,000 to 100,000 between February and August 2005. As of January 2006 Telkom has more than 120,000 ADSL subscribers, with demand still strong.

Video-on-demand trials are currently underway on 4.5 Mbit/s lines, while draft regulations by regulator ICASA could see more dramatic price cuts in 2006, a move that will almost surely see uptake increase.

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Americas
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Argentina
ADSL first appeared in Argentina in 1998, named Speedy by Telefónica, a Spanish company. Fibertel, a cable provider, remains the most popular, but there are several DSL services, including:

Speedy, by Telefónica
Arnet Highway, by Telecom
Flash, by Ciudad Internet.
In 2004, Arnet announced new plans. Controversy ensued, as in small print it mentioned that it was capped to 4 GB monthly. This plans were never put in practice until late 2005, though they were changed. There are two variants of each of their plans, one which is uncapped and the other is not. They currently offer from 640 kbit/s / 128 kbit/s to 5 Mbit/s / 256 kbit/s (the highest download rate offered in the country) for home users. The uncapped 5 Mbit/s plan costs 262 AP (Argentine Pesos), about US$87 at the current exchange. Arnet has been slowly recovering their reputation, which was tarnished amongst connoisseurs due to their 2004 announcement. See: Arnet prices
Both Speedy and Flash have a declining user base, many opting to go the way of Fibertel. Their services are often mentioned to limit P2P download activity. The best connection both ISPs offer is 5 Mbit/s /512 kbit/s. The tendency has been towards lowering costs to the public, instead of making investments to offer higher speeds.

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Brazil
Comunication groups, the Telefónica, Telemar and Brasil Telecom dispute the largest part of the market offered DSL under the telephone copper net. The speeds vary in 512 kbit/s. It is obligatory to contract with an ISP, this being a reason for judicial disputes and controversies. Wireless LAN ISPs are each day more common in the interior of the country. In big cities some WiFi hotspots are available. As of November 2005, some cable companies started do offer 2, 4 and 8 Mbit/s access (without the need of an ISP to connect, but still required under the contract and by law) for the same price as 512 kbit/s ADSL connections.

ADSL was successful in Brazil during beta testing, and became popular in 2000, with the main ISPs being Speedy, Ajato and Velox, with typical speeds of around 256 kbit/s down and 128 kbit/s up. Speeds are now between 300 kbit/s to 1 Mbit/s, with some high end options of 2, 4 or 8 Mbit/s, but at significantly higher prices. Broadband access is split between ADSL, cablemodem, satellite and radio (publicized as 'radio internet', but it is actually a CDMA2000 1xEV-DO hardware solution), with some WiFi services appearing in 2004.

Currently (first quarted 2006) there are ongoing plans for WiMax rollouts in some major cities by the end of the year by TVA, one of the leading cable internet providers.

Broadband Internet is now going through troubled times in Brazil, because of new imposed limitations in the form of data caps with very high charges for additional traffic. The price of a complete ADSL package (ISP + DSL) is currently (as of late 2004) in the region of R$ 90-120 / US$30-40 .

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Canada
The competition between the major broadband Internet providers in Canada has recently caused frequent increases in the available bandwidth provided to home users. As of January 2006, a standard broadband Internet package provides 3.0 Mbit/s downstream and 800 kbit/s upstream rates for both cable- and DSL-based services. Some residential service providers (such as Cogeco or Rogers or Shaw) offer speeds of 5 Mbit/s or higher. In western Canada some service providers now offer speeds of up to 7 Mbit/s. As of June 2005 Eastlink—an eastern Canada communications company increased their residential broadband service to 10 Mbit/s.

Bell and their DSL was originally set at 1.5 megabits per second. Essentially the bandwidth required to transmit VGA (640x480) video across a connection compressed to a rather poor quality. This applies to the legal definition of what broadband is in Canada.

In eastern Canada, most of the providers are sharing the same backbone. A PPPoE network is used to connect subscribers to providers. They all offer a standard ADSL link over a residential POTS line. Some are now offering a Dry DSL service also (an ADSL service without a live POTS line).

Bell Canada is the main DSL residential provider through which the High-Speed Sympatico internet service is provided. Bell Canada customers can also use an alternative provider. (listing http://canadianisp.ca ). ADSL is currently in use, but an upgrade to ADSL2+ technology will provide higher speeds in the near future.

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Chile
There are 799,300 broadband connections in Chile as of March 31, 2006, according to a quarterly study titled Barómetro de la Banda Ancha made by International Data Corporation Chile and published by Cisco [1]. This is a 49% increase from March 2005. The number of home broadband connections is 651,710 (81.5% of all broadband connections), which is equivalent to an 18% penetration of Chilean households. The Chilean region with the largest broadband penetration rate is the Atacama Region with 9.2 per 100 inhabitants, surpassing the Santiago Metropolitan Region (7.4 per 100 inhabitants). The nationwide broadband penetration rate is 5.3 per 100 inhabitants. In the study, "broadband" is defined as a permanent (24-hour) connection with a minimum connection speed of 128 Kbit/s.

One of the major broadband cable companies, VTR, offers several plans:

10 Mbit/s/512 Kbit/s (5 GB monthly download limit) for US$76; a single monthly 5 GB recharge may be purchased for US$9.6 or two 1 GB recharges for US$4.8 each; some users have reported that they've only been able to connect at a maximum of 3 Mbit/s
Several flat-rate plans of 100 Kbit/s, 160 Kbit/s, 300 Kbit/s, 600 Kbit/s, 1.2 Mbit/s and 2.4 Mbit/s
A flexible-speed plan that includes a monthly fee of US$5.5 and a variable fee for each minute connected: US¢2.9 at 128 Kbit/s, US¢4.8 at 600 Kbit/s and US¢6.7 at 1.2 Mbit/s
A controlled plan in which a number of minutes (400, 600 or 800) are paid for in advanced at a chosen speed of 128 Kbit/s, 600 Kbit/s or 1.2 Mbit/s; prices range from US$9.4 (400 min. at 128 Kbit/s) to US$33.5 (800 min. at 1.2 Mbit/s) a month; recharges are optional
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Dominican Republic
Although the Dominican Republic is considered one of the countries with the most advanced telecommunications infrastructures in Latin America, with almost 3 million cell phones connected (on just about 10 million populants, with 4 million of them on extreme poverty conditions) and large companies like Verizon (US) and Orange (FR) on the telecommunications market, the broadband Internet access is limited, with just 107,543 internet accounts globally. There is access to regular ADSL services only on metropolitan areas, costs are high and service is decent. Cable Internet is offered by a couple of cable companies at lower costs than ADSL but the service is very deficient and unreliable. WiFi hotspots are almost non-existent, with just a few in university campuses and other not-so-public areas.

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Mexico
ISPs that provide ADSL:

Telmex - http://www.telmex.com
Terra - http://acceso.terra.com.mx/
Alestra-AT&T - http://www.att.net.mx/temporal/adsl/index.htm
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United States
In the United States, Satellite Internet typically involves equipment and installation costs ranging from $300 to over $600 (the FCC requires professional installation to prevent interference issues), and monthly service costs average from $50 to nearly $80, depending on the speed. In recent times the price has come down. According to an industry trade association, there were 22.5 million cable modem users in the U.S. during Q1 2005, up from 17.4 million in Q1 2004.

In the United States, many different kinds of DSL services are offered by different companies:

VDSL is offered by Qwest and is currently used to deliver video services as well as 1.5 Mbit/s/256 kbit/s internet.
ADSL is offered by a variety of providers, usually the same providers who offer voice services. The most popular variant is RADSL. Many providers, such as SBC, offer 3.0 Mbit/s/384 kbit/s service for home use for around $27, including the ISP. Many have reported that SBC's service actually connects at 6.0 Mbit/s/608 kbit/s. Others, such as Qwest, offer 1.5 Mbit/s/896 kbit/s service for around $33.
ADSL pricing is almost universally flat-rate. However, some ISPs charge for the bandwidth used.
In many newer locations in the US, the DSLAM is actually installed in the local interface box because many neighborhoods have a fiber uplink to the CO (no copper exists between the CO and the house).
256/256 kbit/s DSL is often priced as a "dial-up replacement" service. Typical cost is around $20, including ISP, making the service particularly competitive with higher-priced dial-up ISPs. In many cases, this service is not "always on" and a user must initiate a PPPoE connection to connect to the internet.
8/1 Mbit/s DSL for business use is available from most providers. Cost is typically around $250 per month, plus ISP fees.
8/1 Mbit/s DSL for home use is becoming more widely available due to competitive pressures from Cable Internet.
Some believe that Cable Internet is more popular than DSL in the US because DSL can face implementation problems due to line length and quality. Although cable internet has its share of difficulties, cable internet providers can offer higher theoretical bandwidth on paper (albeit shared, although in many respects DSL is also "shared"). Some believe these paper claims are naturally used to undermine the position of DSL.
External links

DSL Reports - Extensive site on broadband with user reports from around the USA and Canada
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Asia
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Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, as of April 2005 HKBN offers its customers internet access with speeds starting from 10 Mbit/s (19 USD a month) up to 1000 Mbit/s (1 Gbit/s) (215 USD a month) via Fiber to the Building and Fiber to the Home. However the speed to non-Hong Kong destinations is capped to 20 Mbit/s.

ADSL providers include:

PCCW Netvigator, with a 95% coverage area and providing internet access to 1.9 million users. ADSL connections at 3 Mbit/s and 6-8 Mbit/s are priced differently.
HGC
NWT
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India
BSNL, Sify, MTNL, Airtel, Reliance and Hathway are some of the major ISPs in India. TRAI has defined broadband as 256 kbit/s or higher. However, many ISPs advertise their service as broadband but don't offer the suggested speeds. Recently, Airtel and Hathway have begun offering unlimited downloads starting from 64 kbit/s. Broadband in India is very costly compared to Western Europe/Uk and USA.

An unlimited download 256 kbit/s ADSL broadband connection from Airtel costs about $22/mo. The contention ratios are normally very high and uptime suffers due to various infrastructure problems like road digging, water seeping into cables and overhead cables disrupted due to broken trees during monsoons etc.

Due to liberalization in recent years, many private ISPs have entered the market, many with their own local loop and gateway infrastructures. Right now the market is infinite and competition is fierce to lure prospective customers into buying their services. The quality of service is bad for the same reason. The telecom services market is still regulated by TRAI who charges a huge licensing fee for anyone who enters the market which somewhat restricts the easy entry and exit of a service provider from this arena.

Although broadband law of 2004, changed the definition for broadband to 256 kbit/s always on, most ISPs found that they can provide broadband with a capping of data that can be downloaded. ADSL providers include:

Tata Indicom (VSNL)
MTNL/BSNL
Airtel (Bharti Televentures)
Reliance Infocomm (Not yet completely deployed)
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Indonesia
There are several ADSL providers but the most well-known is TelkomNet, a division of TELKOM, because it is domestic. All other providers have to rent networks. With ADSL the maximum speed is 512 kbit/s and monthly maximum data transfer is 2 GB (unlimited data transfer is very expensive - around $450/month for 512 kbit/s, therefore impractical for personal use).

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Iran
ADSL in Iran appeared in January 2004.

Shatel is the first broadband ISP in Iran which offers ADSL2+ and ADSL services for residential and business users in Tehran and other major cities.
CTEL Kish is the first broadband ISP in Khorasan which offers ADSL2+ and ADSL services for residential and business users in Mashhad and other major cities.
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Japan
In Japan, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) planned a step-up process from dialup (54 kbit/s), ISDN(64 kbit/s), to FTTH. Under the plan, NTT had been selling ISDN lines. But ISDN was not a constant connection line, so users complained.

ADSL service started by a venture company, Tokyo Metric in 1999. After this NTT started and some other companies followed. In 2001, SoftBank started ADSL (12 Mbit/s) service. It was a shocking event, because the price was about only 3000 yen (30US$), which was half of other companies. Competitor and Softbank dropped prices and speeded up (12 Mbit/s 24 Mbit/s, 50 Mbit/s) again and again. In 2004, Japan has the best cost performance ADSL in the world (50 Mbit/s, 35US$).

At the same time, NTT and electric power companies expand FTTH areas. In most urban area, people can use FTTH (100 Mbit/s,50 US$), but ADSL is still mainstream. In 2005, Kansai Electric Power started 1 Gbit/s FTTH service at 8700yen (90US$).

In September 2000, the MIC (communications ministry) forced Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, the incumbent operator, to unbundle its copper local loop. The price was fixed considering the line cost were covered by vocal telephony, alternative operators should only support incremental costs bond to newly offered functions. For the fiscal year 2004, partial unbundling rates were 120 ¥ per month and 1,300 ¥ per month for total unbundling.

In 2000, rules for operators colocation inside NTT facilities and lines delivery terms were established. In 2001, NTT were required to unbundle their interconnection optic fibers between exchange points. Finally, It was forbidden for NTT East & NTT West to offer internet access services.

Softbank, a major Nippon ISP, launched in 2001 its DSL service "Yahoo! BB" and massively invest in DSL technology to become in 2003 the largest DSL operator before the incumbent.

In March 2005, DSL had more than 13.6 million customers. The concurrence of FTTH is stronger and stronger, with the arrival of operators like TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company), allied to KDDI and NTT. Three millions customers were wired with FTTH in March 2005 and it could supplant DSL in 2007 according to Yano Research (FTTH Market in Japan and its future prospects, 1 September 2005).

The Japanese model of optic fiber deployment is difficult to compare to other markets. The last kilometre is often done in an aerial manner on pylons, shared between operators, even non-telco. This distribution technique reduce the vulnerability to earthquakes and lower costs dramatically.

(source: French regulation authority letter)

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Philippines
In the Philippines, broadband internet is usually available to consumers through 2 methods: cable and DSL. Cable Internet is offered through ZPDee Cable, Destiny Cable, Parasat Cable among others starting at 64 kbit/s. PLDT, BayanTel and Globe, the Philippines' top 3 telephone operators offer DSL internet starting at 192 kbit/s. Broadband internet is also widely available at public internet cafes and offices, especially in major cities. Wireless (WiFi) broadband internet is progressively being rolled out in coffee houses, malls and major airports around the country.

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Qatar
ADSL launched 2002 in Qatar provided by Qtel with 25000 ADSL users Ref

Speeds:

ADSL 512 kbit/s $55/Month
ADSL 1 Mbit/s $83/Month
ADSL 2 Mbit/s $111/Month
Links: Qtel Site Qatar Internet Site

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Oman
ADSL launched 2005 in Oman provided by Omantel and it's the only ISP here.

Speeds:

ADSL 384 kbit/s For Home Users :
Monthly ADSL Line Rent = 12 R.O ($32) + 1 R.O ($2.6) per 1 GB down/upload.
Unlimited Down/upload = 12 R.O + 27 R.O = 39 R.O ($102) Monthly.
ADSL 512 kbit/s Only For Schools :
Monthly Unlimited Use = 20 R.O ($52).
ADSL 1 Mbit/s Only For Government & Business :
Monthly ADSL Line Rent = 120 R.O ($313) + 1 R.O ($2.6) per 1 GB down/upload.
Links: Omantel Website

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Saudi Arabia
ADSL service in Saudi Arabia has become available since 2001. As part of its monopoly on all methods of communication in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Telecom Company is the only complete provider, though several ISPs are available, with the permission of STC.

There were several reasons for the service being unpopular, in particular the thought to be unreasonable prices and alleged low-quality service. The service is becoming more popular as the service fees are being lowered.

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Singapore
Singapore as a small densely populated island nation is the pioneer, and continues to be one of the few countries in the World in which broadband internet access is readily available to just about any would-be user anywhere in the country, with connectivity over 99%. In a government-led initiative to connect the island in a high-speed broadband network using various mediums such as fibre, DSL and cable, the Singapore ONE project was formally announced in June 1996, and commercially launched in June 1998. By December 1998, Singapore ONE is available nationwide with the completion of the national fibre optics network.

In 1997, commercial trials for Singapore Telecommunications' (Singtel) ADSL-based "SingTel Magix" service were undertaken in March, before being launched in June. Also in June, Singapore Cable Vision commmenced trails for its cable modem based services, before being commercially deployed in December 1999. Singtel's ADSL service was subsequently rolled out on a nation-wide scale in August 2000.

In January 2001, the Broadband Media Association was formed to promote the broadband industry. By April the same year there were 6 broadband internet providers, with the total number of broadband users exceeding 300,000. Pacific Internet introduced wireless broadband services in October 2001.

ADSL providers in Singapore include:

Singtel
Starhub
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South Korea
South Korea one of the highest penetration rates for broadband in the world (23.17 per 100 inhabitants at the end of December 2003). In January 2004, the total number of Internet users in Korea reached 28.6 million - 62% of the population. The vast majority of South Korean broadband users subscribe to ADSL, though cable modem usage has increased significantly since 2004.

South Korea leads the number of DSL connections per head world-wide. ADSL is standard, but VDSL has started growing quickly. ADSL commonly offers speeds of 2 Mbit/s to 8 Mbit/s, with VDSL accordingly faster. The large proportion of South Korea's population living in apartment blocks helps the spread of DSL, as does a high penetration of consumer electronics in general. VDSL is commonly found in newer apartments while ADSL is normally found in landed properties where the telephone exchange is far away. The Internet has a higher status for many Koreans than it does in the West, and the government actively supports this.

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Sri Lanka
ADSL was introduced to Sri Lanka in 2003 by provider Sri Lanka Telecom.

The average speed is 512/128 kbit/s, costing Rs. 2250 per month for an unmetered flat rate. This is the standard for SLT and resellers. Faster connections up to 2 Mbit/s are available, but the price is considerably higher (Rs. 6500 for 2 Mbit/s).

The service is available with in the Greater Colombo area, Kandy and Galle.

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Turkey
In Turkey ADSL service is provided since 2003 by Türk Telekom - (Turkish) http://www.telekom.gov.tr. The current download/upload speed options are 256/64, 512/128, 1024/256, and 2048/512 kbit/s. There are also options of 3, 6 and 9 GB download per-month limit for the speed of 512/128 kbit/s.

Starting from 1 November 2005, Türk Telekom approximate prices (see http://www.turktelekom.com.tr/webtech/default.asp?sayfa_id=152) are as follows:

256/64 kbit/s for €30
512/128 kbit/s for €61
1024/256 kbit/s for €104
2048/512 kbit/s for €165
For the 3, 6 and 9 GB download per-month limits (at 512/128 kbit/s speed) the approximate prices are:

3 GB for €18
6 GB for €30
9 GB for €42
Notes:

The same options and prices are offered for home and business users.
All prices include VAT and "Special Communication Tax".
Approximately €6 per 1 GB download is charged for exceeding limits.
Other ADSL providers in Turkey are given below. They have similar prices and options, because they are using the POTS infrastructure of Türk Telekom:

(Turkish) Superonline
(Turkish) e-kolay
(Turkish) Mynet
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Europe
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Belgium
ADSL first appeared in Belgium in 1999, named Turboline. The first network was set up by Belgian telecom operator Belgacom and has been expanding ever since. In 2004 nearly 90% of the entire territory has access to ADSL from Belgacom. Belgacom daughter Skynet was the first officially supported ADSL provider, but now many more have gained popularity. Download speed is usually capped around 4 Mbit/s, though faster services are now becoming available (including 9 Mbit/s VDSL from Skynet). Many ISPs, notably Skynet, have bandwidth caps in place to limit the amount of data users can transfer through their connection.

Alongside the Belgacom ADSL network, Scarlet has created a secondary network, with higher download and upload rates, sometimes up to the maximum 8 Mbit/s. Several providers use this network, like Scarlet and Adsl2Fit.

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Bulgaria
ADSL was introduced in Bulgaria after the privatization of the state monopoly BTC (Bulgarian Telecommunications Company) in 2004. Since then the aviability has been widely increased and today (February 2006) it is offered in 140 towns and villages around the country. With the liberalization of the telecommunications market it is expected that other companies currently offering broadband Internet by other means will begin offering ADSL in the near future. The BTC price of the most popular packages as of February 2006 is as follows:

512/128 kbit/s, Unlimited, - ~€15
1024/256 kbit/s, Unlimited, - ~€41
2048/512 kbit/s, Unlimited, - ~€51
A map of the service areas can be seen at: http://www.telecom.bg/en/residential_details.php?sel=0&cat=25 (flash required)

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Czech Republic
In Czech Republic, ADSL became commercially available at the beginning of 2003 by then-monopoly operator Cesky Telecom with basic speeds from 192/64 kbit/s to 1024/256 kbit/s. Because of low cable penetration and low WiFi penetration, it became quick success even with high prices (~€350 per month for 1024/256kbit). At the beginning of 2004, local loop unbundling began, and alternative operator Telenor offered ADSL (and also SDSL) via its network with speeds up to 4096/384 kbit/s. This, and later privatisation of Cesky Telecom helped drive down prices.

As of January 2006, ADSL is offered in many variants, both with data limit and without with speeds up to 4096/384 kbit/s. Some operators started offering ADSL2 technology via LLU (athough on ADSL1 speeds) at the end of 2005, with Czech Telecom planning full speed ADSL2(+) later this year.

The typical ADSL connection in Czech Republic is 512/128 kbit/s with a data limit of 3 - 10 GB. Speeds, data limits, Fair User Policy (limiting link speed based on amount of transferred data) and overbooking vary per each ISP, but basically, settings offered are:

Cesky Telecom Network

128/64 kbit/s, 2 GB, 1:50 - ~€14
512/128 kbit/s, 10 GB, 1:50 - ~€23
1024/256 kbit/s, 20 GB, 1:50 - ~€35
2048/256 kbit/s, 20 GB, 1:50 - ~€52
512/128 kbit/s, no limit, 1:20 - ~€66
1024/256 kbit/s, no limit, 1:20 - ~€104
2048/256 kbit/s, no limit, 1:20 - ~€243
Telenor Network

1024/256, no limit, 1:40 - ~€24
2048/256, no limit, 1:40 - ~€35
4096/384, no limit, 1:40 - ~€64
Distance (CTc operator):

from 3/2005:
to 2400 m - max. full speed 4096 kbit/s
to 3400 m - max. 2048/256 kbit/s
to 6500 m - max. 1024/256 kbit/s
to 7300 m - max. 512/128 kbit/s
to 8200 m - max. 256/64 kbit/s

to 3/2005:
256/64 kbit/s to max 3,8 km
512/128 kbit/s to 3,4 km,
1024/256 kbit/s to 3 km.
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Denmark
ADSL was introduced commercially to Denmark in winter 1999. The service has been rolled out very extensively and the national coverage is now above 97% of the Danish population. There are several ISPs in Denmark but only a few own their own infrastructure (The 'last mile' is owned solely by TDC), namely TDC, Cybercity and to some extent Tele2 (who acquired there xDSL infrastructure from Tiscali in February 2005.

More information can be found here (in order of market share):

TDC (former incumbent) - http://www.tdc.dk
Cybercity (part of Telenor) - http://www.cybercity.dk
Tele2 - http://www.tele2.dk
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Finland
First ADSL line providers started in 2000. A typical ADSL connection in Finland is 512/512 kbit/s or 1024/512 kbit/s and it costs €20 to €30 per month.

Some ADSL Line Providers:

Sonera
Elisa
Saunalahti
Finnet
In the city of Oulu, Oulun Puhelin Plc (OPOY) has for a longer time offered full-rate ADSL (8/1 Mbit/s) and VDSL (10/10 Mbit/s, actually Cisco Long Reach Ethernet).

With aggressive marketing, Saunalahti brought full-rate ADSL (8/1 Mbit/s) to the capital area and Turku on 2004-08-03. Saunalahti announced ADSL2 services (12 Mbit/s) on 2004-10-21, available in the capital area and Turku. Saunalahti also announced the first ever ADSL2+ services (24 Mbit/s) in Nordic countries on 2004-11-15, first available only in the Tampere region.

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France
In metropolitan France, intense competition between Internet service providers has led to the introduction of moderately-priced high speed ADSL up to 20 Mbit/s for 30€ per month, often including other services such as unlimited free VoIP telephone communications to land lines, and digital television. Conventional dial-up Internet is increasingly considered as outdated.


zones covered by a DSL service provider in France at the end of September 2005Lines

On the 31st march 2006, France had 10.5 million broadband connexions, of which 94% are ADSL subscribers, a 3.2 million lines or 43% increase from a year before, Arcep, 31 may 2006 This makes France the second largest ADSL market in Europe. At the end of 2005, 30% of those DSL lines were unbundled, and 21% of those unbundled lines were totally unbundled without any direct invoicing of the historical operator and a greater progression rate than partial unbundling according to the regulation authority, the ARCEP, in its 2005 broadband reports. At the end of september 2005, more than 95% of the population can have a DSL connexion.

Market

Wanadoo, a subsidiary of France Telecom, is the leader with half of the market with 49.5%, helped by the reputation and availability of physical shops of the incumbent operator to overcome slightly higher prices because of its obligation of using fixed prices. Other operators shares the rest, with the first being Free (subsidiary of Iliad) with 17.9% of the market, just above Neuf Telecom (Louis Dreyfus Group) which merged his ADSL activities with Cegetel (Vivendi Universal) with 13.2% according to Iliad in its fiscal year 2005 presentation. Then came the other operators: Alice (Telecom Italia) which bought Tiscali, for 6.1%, Club internet (Deutsche Telekom) for 4.4%, AOL, Tele2, and small operators, frequently virtual. The trend is a slow augmentation for the challengers at the expense of Wanadoo.

Offers

The market is oriented towards stopping the price war, and offering more services at a price around 30€, slightly more for the incumbent operator:

maximum throughput permitted by the line, either 8 Mbit/s (maximum of ADSL) or 24 Mbit/s (maximum of ADSL2+) depending on the line length and type of DSLAM
unlimited telephony to land lines in Europe, North America (even mobile phones), China and India
television with the broadcasting of the young terrestrial digital TV and paid satellite TV
Those triple play offers were initiated by Free with the Freebox modem, and are expanding to all major players, driving the French market as noted by BusinessWeek the 5 December 2005.

First prices between 15€ and 20€ per month remain for a small usage with limited throughput around one megabit per second (but often ADSL2 max in unbundled zones). Those prices can also be attained with complete unbundling, saving the monthly 15€ for the POTS subscription while retaining the triple play services.

Technology

After selling the first ADSL2+ offers in Europe, providing a speed of 18 Mbit/s down and 1 Mbit/s up in 2004, French operators continue to offer new services, driven by the competition. It is possible to use video telephony, video on demand, Reach Extended ADSL for 8 km lines soon. Experiments aren't any more the Iliad/Free trademark: they recently demonstrated an aggregated 174 Mbit/s link, while Telecom Italia innovates on the service with a free hotline and France Telecom is pushing VDSL.

In December 2005, Free has enabled a TV multicasting service on the customer's local network, an open solution based on RTSP (2005-12-01 announce). This completes the media center capability of the freebox, also using the VideoLAN project. They launched on 19 april 2006 a new freebox divided in two devices with DVB-T and HDTV capabilities and a Mimo wifi network.

Quadruple play, triple play with mobile communications, is available: neuf cegetel is selling for 200€ and 1€ with a plan Twin, a GSM/WiFi hybrid telephone after the experimental beautifulphone, by the means of a QTek 8300 and Wanadoo sells Unik, a Motorola, Nokia et Samsung handset for 100€. Free develops a wifi mesh network of HD freeboxes to be used to provide mobile telephony and compete with traditional cellular operators.

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Germany
As of first quarter of 2005, Deutsche Telekom signed up approximately 6.4 million DSL customers in Germany, making Germany one of the top countries to provide DSL. There are other DSL Providers in Germany which do not resell T-DSL because they have their own DSL network. Such Providers are Arcor or AliceDSL.

ADSL Providers:

Deutsche Telekom offers:

T-DSL 1000: 1024/128 (€17)
T-DSL 2000: 2048/192 (€20)
T-DSL 6000: 6016/576 (€25)
T-DSL 16000: 16000/1024 (€30)
These prices do not include ISP fees, which are typically an additional €5-10 (flatrate, all speeds).

Major resellers of T-DSL are T-Online and 1&1, though 1&1 has been using Telefónica's network for their 16Mb/s service.

ISPs offering DSL flatrates that can be used with T-DSL include T-Online, 1&1, GMX and Congster.

Arcor offers:

Arcor DSL 2000: 2048/192 (€15)
Arcor DSL 6000: 6144/640 (€20)
Arcor DSL 16000: 16128/800 (€23)
The Arcor prices already include the ISP flatrate.

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Greece
ADSL in Greece appeared commercially in the summer of 2003. The incumbent telecom operator, OTE, has been accused of deliberately stalling ADSL deployment for three years, in order to continue charging users with high per-minute dial-up charges as long as possible (flat-rate dial-up connections do not exist in Greece). OTE has also been criticized for artificially limiting the number of packets passing per second through a given ADSL connection, with the purpose of rendering Voip services over its broadband network unusable and unreliable.

Typical download/upload speeds available over OTE's network (in Kbps) are 384/128, 512/128 and 1024/256. Speeds up to 12/1 Mbps are provided by Vivodi Telecom, as the company has launched commercially ADSL2+ services in some regions.

ADSL Line Providers in Greece:

OTE, the incumbent telecom operator and former state monopoly.
Vivodi Telecom, a private company utilizing local loop unbundling (LLU), covering few parts of Greece at the moment.
Other ISPs, such as Tellas and Hellas On Line, are testing LLU lines in some districts of Athens.
Main ADSL Internet Providers:

Forthnet
Otenet
Vivodi Telecom
Hellas On Line
Tellas
Altec Telecoms
There are also some smaller ISPs providing ADSL.

All you need to know about ADSL in Greece

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Hungary
ADSL appeared in Hungary in 2001, and ADSL2+ in late 2005. The main providers are: T-Com (formerly Matáv), Invitel, Emitel, Monortel, Pantel, TVNet Approximate prices:

512/96 ~ 35€
1024/128 ~ 49€
2048/192 ~ 59€
3008/384 ~ 70€
6144/512 ~ 105€
Starting from June 2006 there will be 2 new offering: 12 and 18 Mbit/s from T-Com based on ADSL2+

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Ireland
In Ireland, Eircom began rolling out Broadband in 2002. This continued slowly until last year when the rollout became much more agressive. As more and more competition has appeared so have the prices dropped. Local loop unbundling (LLU) is now starting to move with companies like Magnet Networks and Smart Telecom offering unbundled services. As in many other countries, localities in rural Ireland are unable to get DSL. This does not look like changing in the immediate future. Satellite broadband is the only choice for some people. The government-sponsored Group Broadband Schemes have helped some local communities set up their own internet networks whether with wireless or other technologies.

Broadband is now available in areas near DSL-enabled exchanges from several companies other than Eircom. These include Esat BT, Smart Telecom, Clearwire, Magnet Networks and UTV Internet. Irish Broadband offer wireless broadband connections at up to 4Mb symmetric in the major cities and are expanding all the time.

ADSL appeared in Ireland in 2002. By December 2005 around 70% of all homes could get ADSL. By April 2006 90% of households will be broadband capable, according to Eircom, the largest Broadband provider in the Republic of Ireland. These figures are the source of much debate in Ireland.

1024/128 ~ €30
2048/192 ~ €40
3072/384 ~ €55
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Italy
ADSL has in theory been available in Italy for a number of years, and has been very widely publicised; but in practice has to now (Sept 2004) been limited by an apparently low technical competence of the telecoms companies, which consumers continue to tolerate. Consumer expectations are heavily conditioned by decades of poor service, delays, random cuts and the alleged technical and commercial ineptitude that was typical of the entire communications sector, a state monopoly until very recently.

Recent liberalisation of the market has brought much hype and little change. The local loop is still in the hands of the old monopolist, whose ingrained corporate culture does not favour the consumer. The general corporate trend to outsource technical assistance to untrained operators in third-party call centres does little to mitigate a very sorry state of affairs. The old monopolist limits the amount of bandwidth it sells to competitors, which are forced to heavily oversubscribe users to limited backbone. Some companies have started installing their own DSLAMs, and offering fast connection at competitive prices, but these services aren't available in many areas. A cable operator, fastweb, has started a 10MB/s service, but as they started building their network from scratch in recent years it is only available in major cities. One common criticism is that they connect their users to a metropolitan area network and not directly to the internet, so users are behind NAT servers. Satellite internet remains very expensive.

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Latvia
ADSL services in Latvia are provided by Lattelekom. Majas DSL, service for home users, is very popular. It's speed is 512/128Kbps and a ADSL2+ version with a speed of 10Mbps. Both cost the same.

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Lithuania
ADSL carrier services in Lithuania are provided by monopoly Teo LT. In the future this service might be used by other ISPs for their retail services. Find more about "Zebra DSL"

Prices : down/up
4096/768 for € 25
1024/768 for € 15
256/128 for € 8 *limited
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Netherlands
Five ADSL networks are active in The Netherlands; two networks set up by KPN(namely MXstream and Bitstream), the former state telecom operator, and three others run by BBned (a subsidiary of Telecom Italia), Tiscali Wholesale and Versatel. At the moment ISP Wanadoo (a subsidiary of France Telecom) is also setting up its own network. Versatel was bought by Tele2, a Swedish competitive telecom operator. The KPN network has near to 100% coverage and other networks have roughly 70% coverage. Several line speeds are available, depending on the internet provider. KPN has four ISP companies. KPN direct, HetNet, Planet and XS4all. HetNet and Planet used to be separate companies. They were bought by and integrated into KPN and are now only brandnames. The last being XS4all, owned but not run by KPN. XS4all is used by KPN as main innovator and for that reason reserved the right to run it's own affairs. KPN has in recent years acquired several other ISP's. None of their brandnames were adopted by KPN and seized to exist. These include Freeler. Since XS4all is left to run it's own affairs, but does count as KPN provider, KPN has acquired even more customers by XS4all taking over ISP's as well. These include Cistron, HCCnet and most recently the dutch branch of Demon internet.

Typical download/upload speeds of the KPN network:

1500/256 kbit/s from €21.95 for only a basic internet connection without e.g. an emailbox - €29.95 with high quality ISP
3000/512 kbit/s from €29.95 for only a basic internet connection without e.g. an emailbox - €39.95 with high quality ISP
6000/768 kbit/s from €49.95 for only a basic internet connection without e.g. an emailbox - €59.95 with high quality ISP
12000/1024 kbit/s from €74.95 for only a basic internet connection without e.g. an emailbox - €79.95 with high quality ISP (only available on local exchanges with ADSL2+ equipment)
20000/1024 kbit/s from €99,95 only with high quality ISP (only available on local exchanges with ADSL2+ equipment)
Lower speeds (e.g. 375/128 and 750/128 kbit/s) are also available.

Alcatel is replacing the existing ADSL equipment of KPN with ADSL2+ equipment. The replacement will be completed in the first quarter of 2006, when KPN will also begin to offer VoIP. For VoIP, costumers will need a new modem (Experiabox===Siemens Gigaset SE551 ADSL2+ router with four ethernet ports, WiFi and two telephone ports). Later in 2006 KPN will also offer IPTV. This move of KPN is a direct result of the VoIP services offered by other ADSL network operators and cable companies (90% of Dutch households have a cable connection).

For other ADSL networks prices tend to be lower and speeds higher. E.g. Versatel offers 20000/1024 kbit/s with telephony (VoIP) and live soccer games of the Dutch competition (IPTV) for €59.95 and Wanadoo offers 20000/1024 kbit/s for €23.95.

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Malta
Commercial availability of broadband internet, namely through ADSL and cable, has existed since 2000, and is accessible from all areas of the island. As of 2005, ADSL is offered at speeds of 1 Mbit/s and 2 Mbit/s download, and 256 kbit/s and 512 kbit/s upload. From 9th June maltanet has upgraded all the 2Mbit/s customers to 4Mbit/s connections. All local ISPs offer these speeds, at varying prices. ADSL bandwidth is received through the Seabone Network and operated by DataStream and Vodafone Malta plc. (which are not ISPs). The bandwidth is then sold to the various ISPs which in turn sell it to customers. As of December 2005, DataStream merged with the ISP maltanet, giving maltanet a competitive edge over other ISPs - both DataStream and maltanet are subsidiaries of the national telephone company, Maltacom.

Cable internet is offered by only one ISP, OnVOL, with speeds available at 2 Mbit/s and 4 Mbit/s download, and 256 kbit/s and 512 kbit/s upload. OnVOL is a subsidiary of the cable and digital television provider, Melita Cable. The 4 Mbit/s speed offered by OnVOL via cable is the fastest current connection available for the residential user in Malta. OnVOL also offer the standard ADSL connection as mentioned above, however this is not advertised and apparentely only available for businesses.

Broadband connectivity has become very widespread on the island, with many households opting for a broadband connection. Prices vary slightly between ISPs, however, 1 Mbit/s and 2 Mbit/s ADSL connections, and 2 Mbit/s and 4 Mbit/s cable connections are all very reasonably priced, and therefore affordable to the majority of the population. This is largely due to competition between ISPs, and also special connection plans, targeted towards the household user.

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Norway
ADSL became available to private consumers around late 2000.

Depending on the provider, offered speeds range from 704/128 kbit/s to as high as 8/1 Mbit/s for ADSL, while ADSL2+ is slowly becoming available with speeds reaching up to 26/1.5 Mbit/s.

Prices vary constantly due to fierce competition between providers, but prices can be found as low as 195 NOK (US$30) per month for the most basic ADSL connections, while ADSL2+ is somewhat pricier, it starts at around 550 NOK (US$82) per month. This is in addition to DSL equipment rental and installation fees.

Some major ISPs that provide DSL services in Norway:

Tele2 .- http://www.tele2.no
NextGenTel .- http://www.nextgentel.no/
Telenor .- http://www.telenor.no/
Bluecom .- http://www.bluecom.no/
TDC Song .- http://tdcsong.no/
Catch Communications .- http://www.catchspeed.no/
UPC .- http://www.upc.no/
There is also a flurry of local providers all over the country that offer competitive DSL services.

As of the time this is written (January 2006), all known services include unlimited download. (i.e no capping)

External links

www.telepriser.no - The Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority maintains an updated list of prices and features of all Norwegian broadband providers (along with other telecommunications service providers).
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Poland
The most popular ADSL services for home users in Poland are Neostrada provided by TPSA, and Net24 provided by Netia. Business users as well as some home users use Internet DSL TP also offered by TPSA. According to Eurostat, OECD and others internet in Poland is the most expensive in Europe. This is mostly caused by the lack of competitivness. Luckly new operators like Dialog and GTS Energis are making the own provider lines and offer more attractive and cheaper service. Recently the Polish Office of Electronical Communication passed a bill forcing the TPSA to rent 51% of their ADSL lines to other ISPs for 50% lower prices. This move will definitely affect the prices of DSL in Poland


Neostrada

At present Neostrada has six possible price, speed and download limit variants (as of May 2006):


Prices and speed for 12 month contract (excluding tax):

128/64 kbit/s and 7 GB monthly for €19 / month
256/128 kbit/s and 7 GB monthly for €20 / month
512/128 kbit/s and 15 GB monthly for €31 / month
1024/256 kbit/s and 25 GB monthly for €43 / month
2048/256 kbit/s and 35 GB monthly for €54 / month
6144/256 kbit/s and 50 GB monthly for €62 / month
Prices and speed for 24 month contract (excluding tax):

512/128 kbit/s and 15 GB monthly for €25 / month
1024/256 kbit/s and 25 GB monthly for €35 / month
2048/256 kbit/s and 35 GB monthly for €41 / month
6144/256 kbit/s and 50 GB monthly for €53 / month
Prices and speed for unlimited period of time (excluding tax):

128/64 kbit/s and 7 GB monthly for €30 / month
256/128 kbit/s and 7 GB monthly for €32 / month
512/128 kbit/s and 15 GB monthly for €44 / month
1024/256 kbit/s and 25 GB monthly for €59 / month
2048/256 kbit/s and 35 GB monthly for €64 / month
6144/256 kbit/s and 50 GB monthly for €75 / month
After execeeding the data transfer limit, download speeds fall to 32 kbit/s until the end of month on all options.

One can buy an additional 2 GB of transfer by calling a premium-rate number or buying a special card with a code. It costs €2.5 and does not affect base line speed.

Some users also have older (offered until September 2004) no longer available options of 640/160 kbit/s with no download limit for €33.

Internet DSL TP

There is another ADSL option available, targeted mainly at business clients, called Internet DSL TP. This does not impose any download limits, the link availability is guaranteed plus offers static IP address(es) and a modem with Ethernet interface. Of course, it is more expensive than Neostrada (all prices excluding tax, as of May 2006):

256/128 kbit/s for €36 / month
512/128 kbit/s for €47 / month
1024/256 kbit/s for €60 / month
2048/256 kbit/s for €78 / month
4096/512 kbit/s for €91 / month
8192/640 kbit/s for €104 / month
15360/800 kbit/s for €131 / month
The main drawback of this service is that, excluding times of promotional fares, the installation cost is very high: €209. However, monthly fares are now quite close to similar Neostrada speed options.

Net24

ADSL service called Net24, provided by TP's main competitor Netia, offers four speed options: (As for May 2006)



128/64 kbit/s for €14 / month
256/64 kbit/s for €18 / month
640/160 kbit/s for €28 / month
1024/160 kbit/s for €37 / month
(prices excluding tax)

The physical speeds are slightly higher than marketed speeds to accommodate protocol overhead. The IP address is assigned dynamically on connection.

There is no download limit on either option. Also in contrast to Neostrada, the service can be installed on ISDN lines.

Netia also offers ADSL (BiznesNet24) and SDSL (SuperNet24) subscriptions for business customers which offer static IP address and higher speeds.

DialNET DSL

ADSL service called DialNET DSL, provided by Dialog. There is now download limits which makes it much better than TPSA's Neostrada

Prices and speed for 12 month contract (including tax):

512/128 kbit/s for €21 / month
1024/256 kbit/s for €31 / month
2048/512 kbit/s for €62 / month
Prices adn speed for unlimited time contract (including tax):

512/128 kbit/s for €31 / month
1024/256 kbit/s for €46 / month
2048/512 kbit/s for €77 / month
External links

Neostrada Homepage
InternetDSL Homepage
Net24 Homepage
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Portugal
The ADSL service has been available in Portugal since 2000, however it wasn't until 2002, with increased competition, that the service started to become appealing to the general public. The main telephone companies have since started to market packages that combine voice and internet services. These are becoming increasingly popular and are usually available from each company in the areas where they have setup their own infrastructre and are able to provide direct service.

The top ADSL ISPs in Portugal are:

Portugal Telecom

A former monopoly, Portugal Telecom is still the largest telecommunications company in the country today. Due to their previous monopoly status their landline infrastructre covers 100% of the national territory, making them the only operator that can offer direct service anywhere in the country. Portugal Telecom uses two brands to segment their ADSL service: SAPO for the residential market and Telepac for the SOHO market.

Prices for SapoADSL service are as follows:


Sapo 512Kb : 512/128 kbit/s for €24,99 / month with 1 GB international and 10 GB national traffic.
Sapo 4Mb : 4096/256 kbit/s for €35,58 / month with 10 GB international and 40 GB national traffic.
Sapo 8Mb : 8128/384 kbit/s for €49,50 / month with 30 GB international and unlimited national traffic.
Sonae.Com

Novis Telecom started offering their service in 1999, soon after the government opened the telecommunications market to competition. Novis Telecom started by renting Portugal Telecom's lines in order to offer their voice service to customers, but later started laying their own infrastructure and can now offer direct service (ADSL2+) in the main metropolitan areas. Novis Telecom also uses two separate brands to differentiate their ADSL service: Clix for the residential market and Novis for the business market.

Prices for ClixADSL service:


Clix 2Mb : 2048/256 kbit/s for €29.90 / month with 10 GB traffic limit.
Clix 16Mb : 16384/400 kbit/s for €34.90 / month with 25 GB traffic limit.
Oni Telecom

Another newcomer after the opening of the telecommunications market, Oni Telecom started operating in 2000. Like Novis Telecom, Oni began offering their voice service by renting Portugal Telecom's infrastructure before they laid their own fiber backbone and started offering direct service to their customers.Their current ADSL service comes in the form of a package called OniDuo which includes both voice and ADSL service.

Prices for OniDuo packages:


512/128 kbit/s for €19,95 / month (with 4 GB traffic limit)
5120/256 kbit/s for €29,95 / month (with 12 GB traffic limit)
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Romania
In Romania, broadband internet has been available since 2000, through coaxial cable, first from Kappa (now defunct) and currently from Astral Romania, RDS and UPC. Currently speeds range between 384 kbit/s to 1.5 Mbit/s (both upstream and downstream) for household targeted plans and cost between USD 9 and USD 30 per month, depending on the bandwidth provided.

However, the most popular broadband services are provided by micro-ISPs (known locally as "reţea de bloc/reţea de cartier" (block/neighborhood LAN) with between 50 and 2000 customers each. These ISPs usually provide their services through 100BASE-T UTP LANs, with a number of particularities and peculiarities : most were grassroot organizations and still have a feeling of community between subscribers and the management, speeds are usually divided in three categories : "LAN", "Metropolitan" and "International" with Metropolitan meaning a limited number of networks with which the micro-ISP has a peering agreement and sometimes the cable internet providers (as there is no national Internet exchange, a lot of metropolitan traffic in Romania is routed through Hungary or Germany). Generally, for such broadband connections, speeds are 100 Mbit/s locally, 1-10 Mbit/s metro and 128-512 kbit/s International. Costs range from between 25 Lei (USD 8.5) and 700 Lei (USD 235). Some of these micro-ISP function completely legally, while others (generally the smaller ones) are organized informally in something like a permanent LAN party. Many of these micro-ISPs formed organizations to represent their common interests and provide for integration of services (one such organization is Interlan, covering the whole of Bucharest).

DSL has been a very recent addition, on an almost saturated market (Romtelecom began offering the service in late 2005 in a small number of large cities), and is not a popular means of connection, as it's both perceived as small and expensive (1 Mbit/s downstream, 256 Kbit/s upstream is offered for Euro 35 / USD 42).

For business use, services are usually provided through fiber optics or radio. Companies providing such services (Astral, RDS, Evolva, Mediasat, UPC, Euroweb, Fibernet, Intrabit) are providing very flexible and negotiable plans also based on the Metropolitan/International distinction. Usually prices and bandwiths are fully negotiable as their main clients are the micro-ISPs discussed above. There is very strong competition, with no peering between many such companies (again requiring a lot of traffic to be routed through Hungary) and not even access to another's fiber-optics infrastructure (leading to the existence, in some cases, of over 25 fiber optics cables on the same street, hanging from the same pole). As such many companies have two separate provideres for basically the same services.

DSL in Romania is provided by Romtelecom and a small number of Romtelecom licencees using it's infrastructure. DSL is very unpopular in Romania, because of very late introduction (in 2005), the wide availability and high penetration of cable and LAN networks (available since 2000), the very high prices (about twice higher than cable competitors) and limited availability. As such, prices valid for 2006 (normal, non-promotional prices) are as following (add 4 € / month for modem rental):

ClickNet Express 512 (512 kbit/s downstream, 128 kbit/s upstream) : 25 € / month (USD 30) (compare with 9 USD/month from a cable ISP)
ClickNet Express 1024 (1024 kbit/s downstream, 256 kbit/s upstream) : 35 € / month (USD 42) (compare with 19 USD/month from a cable ISP)
ADSL Express 2048 (2048 kbit/s downstream, 384 kbit/s upstream) : 79 € / month (USD 95) (compare with 45 USD/month from a cable ISP)
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Slovenia
Slovenian ISP's provide ADSL,VDSL and ADSL2+.
There are no download limits on any of package and no fair-use policy.

Companies:
SiOL
ADSL


1024/256 kbit/s for 7.200,00 SIT (~ US$36) //PSTN or ISDN needed (extra ~US$15)
4096/512 kbit/s for 10.200,00 SIT (~ US$51) //PSTN or ISDN needed (extra ~US$15)

Amis
ADSL


1024/256 kbit/s for 6.590,00 SIT (~ US$33) //PSTN or ISDN needed (extra ~US$15)
4096/512 kbit/s for 10.550,00 SIT (~ US$53) //PSTN or ISDN needed (extra ~US$15)

Voljatel
ADSL


1024/256 kbit/s for 6.800,00 SIT (~ US$34) //PSTN or ISDN needed (extra ~US$15)
4096/512 kbit/s for 10.600,00 SIT (~ US$53) //PSTN or ISDN needed (extra ~US$15)

ADSL2+ (available after 1.4.2006)


1024/256 kbit/s for 3.990,00 SIT (~ US$20) //PSTN or ISDN needed (extra ~US$15)
8/1 Mbit/s for 7.790,00 SIT (~ US$39) //PSTN or ISDN needed (extra ~US$15)
20/1 Mbit/s for 12.990,00 SIT (~ US$65) //PSTN or ISDN needed (extra ~US$15)

T-2
VDSL


1024/256 kbit/s for 5.000 SIT (~ US$25) //no PSTN or ISDN needed
1024/1024 kbit/s for 6.000 SIT (~ US$30) //no PSTN or ISDN needed
4096/512 kbit/s for 7.000 SIT (~ US$35) //no PSTN or ISDN needed
8/1 Mbit/s for 8.000 SIT (~ US$40) //no PSTN or ISDN needed
10/1 Mbit/s for 9.000 SIT (~ US$45) //no PSTN or ISDN needed
10/2 Mbit/s for 10.000 SIT (~ US$50) //no PSTN or ISDN needed
10/4 Mbit/s for 12.000 SIT (~ US$60) //no PSTN or ISDN needed
10/10 Mbit/s for 14.000 SIT (~ US$70) //no PSTN or ISDN needed
20/1 Mbit/s for 13.000 SIT (~ US$65) //no PSTN or ISDN needed
20/4 Mbit/s for 15.000 SIT (~ US$75) //no PSTN or ISDN needed
20/10 Mbit/s for 18.000 SIT (~ US$90) //no PSTN or ISDN needed
40/8 Mbit/s for 25.000 SIT (~ US$125) //no PSTN or ISDN needed
40/15 Mbit/s for 29.000 SIT (~ US$145) //no PSTN or ISDN needed
Optical fibers


1024/256 kbit/s for 3.500 SIT (~ US$17.5)
1024/1024 kbit/s for 4.500 SIT (~ US$22.5)
4096/512 kbit/s for 5.5000 SIT (~ US$27.5)
8/1 Mbit/s for 6.500 SIT (~ US$32.5)
10/1 Mbit/s for 7.500 SIT (~ US$37.5)
10/2 Mbit/s for 8.500 SIT (~ US$42.5)
10/4 Mbit/s for 9.500 SIT (~ US$47.5)
10/10 Mbit/s for 10.000 SIT (~ US$50)
20/1 Mbit/s for 11.500 SIT (~ US$57.5)
20/4 Mbit/s for 13.500 SIT (~ US$67.5)
20/10 Mbit/s for 16.500 SIT (~ US$82.5)
20/20 Mbit/s for 20.000 SIT (~ US$100)
40/8 Mbit/s for 23.500 SIT (~ US$117.5)
40/15 Mbit/s for 27.500 SIT (~ US$135)
50/50 Mbit/s for 50.000 SIT (~ US$250)
100/100 Mbit/s for 100.000 SIT (~ US$500)
1/1 Gbit/s for 1.000.000 SIT (~ US$5000)
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Spain
ADSL arrived in Spain in 1999. The main ISPs are:

Telefónica (former state telecom monopoly).
Terra Networks, S.A. (part of the Telefónica Group)
Ya.com (started by jazztel, later sold to T-Online).
Wanadoo (initally the internet branch of Uni2 Spain, it operates much like Terra, as a reseller of Telefonica ADSL services)
Tele2 (bought Colt Telecom, offers 6 Mbit/s with Fastpath (lower latency than the usual interleaved modes used by most ISP.
Jazztel, the first ISP to provide ADSL2+ throughout the country.
The average speed is 1024/300 kbit/s, costing €20 to €39 per month for a unmettered flat fare. This is the standard for telefonica and resellers. Faster connections up to 8 Mbit/s are available, but the price is considerably higher (€150 for 8 Mpbs).

Leading ISPs offer ADSL2/ADSL2+ connections from 8 to 20 Mbit/s of download and 512 to 1024 kbit/s of upload. These include Jazztel, Ya.com, Wanadoo and others. While not covering 100% of the territory, it reaches more than 33% of the population. Prices average €25 depending on the bundle.

Telefonica, Jazztel, and Wanadoo all provide DSL based television services (Imagenio, Jazztelia TV and Wanadoo TV respectively).

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Sweden
In Sweden household broadband is mainly available through cable (in speeds of 128 kbit/s to 8 Mbit/s) and ADSL (256 kbit/s to 24 Mbit/s), but in many places also through copper Ethernet LAN networked via fibre MANs connecting buildings. Symmetric broadband Internet access of 100 Mbit/s is available for USD 40 a month, as of October 2005. In Lund, one service offers 1 Gbit/s connections.

ADSL competition has been low in Sweden, mainly due to the fact that nearly all POTS copper is owned by Skanova (a part of TeliaSonera), who have made it difficult and expensive for third parties to gain access to the telephone stations. Nearly all ADSL provided today is through the "Skanova broadband platform", while other actors who have earlier tried to supply ADSL independently have gone over to Skanova (Bonet/Bostream), or gone bankrupt (Xpress ADSL).

Bredbandsbolaget AB
Glocalnet AB
TeliaSonera AB
Speed:

8/1 Mbit/s in all 290 municipalities. 24/1 Mbit/s in 100 of 290 municipalities.
Cost:

400 kronor (US$57) per month
Market:

The wired market has seen large investments from for example leading investment company the Carlyle Group. Which used to hold 21.6% of the Bredbandsbolaget AB equity. In July 2005 Bredbandsbolaget was bought by Norwegian Telenor ASA. Bredbandsbolaget have recently performed a string of acquisitions of weaker competitors. The wireless broadband market have also seen large foreign direct investments; for example Hutchison Whampoa's investments in the Scandinavian 3 (telecommunications).
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Switzerland
In Switzerland, approximately two thirds of home broadband subscriptions are via ADSL, with the remaining third using Cable [3]. Other xDSL technologies, satellite access and fiber channels are available, but are generally used by businesses due to their cost.

The typical home ADSL user has three speed choices [4]:

2000/100 for CHF 49.- a month
3500/300 for CHF 69.- a month
5000/300 for CHF 99.- a month
The above prices are examples from Bluewin, the leading Swiss ISP, as of May 2006.

There are usually no overages for traffic, as there is for the most part no monthly traffic limit. There is the occasional sign-up cost, which can cost up to CHF 100.-. Upon signing up with an ISP, one can choose to buy an analog or ISDN ADSL modem, which can cost from CHF 50.- to 200.- depending on its' features. One can also ask a technician to install the material on-site, for approximately CHF 150.-.

Business ADSL offers are similar in speed to home offers. The following is Bluewin's fastest offer as of April 2006 [5]:

6000/600 for CHF 349.- a month, with a 500.00 activation charge.
Typical added business services include priority over other traffic, thereby ensuring full speed, a hardware firewall solution to improve network security, and prioritary technical support.

ADSL providers in Switzerland and their websites:

Bluewin - [6]
EconoPhone - [7]
Green.ch - [8]
sunrise - [9]
VTX - [10]
The Swiss ADSL infrastructure is owned by Swisscom, the (DSLAM hardware and software is provided by Alcatel.

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United Kingdom
On August 13, 2004 the ISP Wanadoo (formerly Freeserve in the UK) were told by the Advertising Standards Authority to change the way that they advertised their 512 kbit/s broadband service in Britain, removing the words "full speed" which rival companies claimed was misleading people into thinking it was the fastest available service. In a similar way, on April 9, 2003 the Advertising Standards Authority ruled against ISP NTL, saying that NTL's 128 kbit/s cable modem service must not be marketed as "broadband". Ofcom reported in June 2005 that there were more broadband than dial-up connections for the first time in history.[11]. In the third quarter of 2005 with the merger of NTL and Telewest, a new alliance was formed to create the largest market share of broadband users. This alliance brought about huge increases in bandwidth allocations for customers (minimum speed increasing from the industry norm of 512Kbit/s to 2Mbit/s home lines with both companies planning to have all domestic customers upgraded to at least 4Mbit/s downstream and ranging up to 10Mbit/s and beyond by mid-2006.) along with the supply of integrated services such as Digital TV and Phone packages. 8Mbit/s[12] enabled exchanges have begun appearing in larger cities, with British Telecom announcing[13] that more than 5300 exchanges will be upgraded to allow 99.6% of homes in the UK access to the higher speeds.

See also May 2004 New Statesman supplement [14] on broadband.

ADSL was introduced to the UK in trial stages in the late 1990's and a commercial product was launched in 2000. In the United Kingdom, most exchanges, local loops and backhauls are owned and managed by BT Wholesale, who then sell on connectivity to ISPs, who provide the actual connectivity with the Internet (in most cases), telephone support, billing and added features. BT currently operate 5591 exchanges all over the UK with the vast majority being enabled for ADSL. Only a relative handful have not been upgraded to support ADSL products - infact it is under 100 of the smallest and most rural exchanges. Some exchanges, numbering under 1000, have been upgraded to support SDSL products. However, these exchanges are often the larger exchanges based in major towns and cities so they still cover a large proportion of the population. SDSL products are aimed more at business customers and are priced higher than ADSL services.

The ADSL packages available from BT Wholesale are known as IPStream Home 250, Home 500, Home 1000 and Home 2000 (contention ratio of 50:1); and Office 500, Office 1000, and Office 2000 (contention ratio of 20:1). The number in the product name indicates the downstream data rate in kilobits per second. The upstream data rate is up to 250 kbit/s for all products.

Third parties have unbundled access to the local loops and can provide other services. As such, packages are available with typical speeds of 4 Mbit/s, 8 Mbit/s or up to 24 Mbit/s downstream in certain areas. Again such products are often available on the larger city based exchanges where the potential customer base is higher in number.

For BT Wholesale ADSL products, users initially had to live within 3.5 kilometers of the local telephone exchange to receive ADSL, but this limit was increased thanks to RADSL (Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line), although users with RADSL may have a reduced upstream rate, depending on the quality of their line. There are still areas that cannot receive ADSL because of technical limitations, not least of which networks in housing areas built with aluminium cable rather than copper in the 1980s and 1990s, and areas served by optical fibre (TPON), though these are slowly being serviced with copper.

In September 2004, BT Wholesale removed the line length / loss limits for 500 kbit/s ADSL, instead employing a tactic of "suck it and see" — enabling the line, then seeing if ADSL would work on it. This sometimes includes the installation of a filtered faceplate on the customer's master socket, so as to eliminate poor quality telephone extension cables inside the customer's premises which can be a source of high frequency noise.

In the past, the majority of home users used packages with 500 kbit/s (downstream) and 250 kbit/s (upstream) with a 50:1 contention ratio, typically costing between £20 and £30 per month. However BT Wholesale introduced the option of a new charging structure to ISPs which means that the wholesale service cost was the same regardless of the ADSL data rate, with charges instead being based on the amount of data transferred. Nowadays, most home users use a package whose data rate is only limited by the technical limitations of their telephone line. Most home products today (2 Mbit/s downstream) will fall in the £20-30 per month price range.

There is currently a trial in place for new services to be called "IPStream Max", which offer users higher download and upload speeds, with varying speeds based upon the capabilities of their lines.

On 31 March 2006, BT Wholesale should be making the new "IPStream Max" products generally available across most exchanges. The two new products will be "IPStream Max" and "IPStream Max Premium". Both services offers downstream data rates of up to 7.4 Mbit/s. Upstream data rates are up to 400 kbit/s for the standard product and up to 800 kbit/s for the premium product. (Whilst the maximum downstream data rate for IPStream Max is often touted as 8 Mbit/s, this is in fact misleading because, in a departure from previous practice, it actually refers to the gross ATM data rate. The maximum data rata available at the IP level is 7.4 Mbit/s; the maximum TCP payload rate — the rate you would actually see for file transfer — would be 7.2 Mbit/s.)

Contention ratios are no longer officially stated either, except that the Office products will generally see a reduced level of contention to their Home counterparts. This is the product of amalgamating Home and Office users onto a single consolidated, but larger, virtual path.

Several companies are also operating their own services using unbundled local loops, notably Bulldog Communications in the London area, and Easynet, through their consumer sister company UK Online, who have enabled exchanges all across the country, from London to Central Scotland. Because these companies do not have to conform to the same regulatory conditions as BT, they can offer products at sometimes considerably lower prices — UK Online recently announced a 512 kbit/s product for £9.99 per month. Another company, "Be", is offering speeds of up to 24 Mbit/s downstream, using ADSL2+ but this is only available on a small number of exchanges mostly in the London area. Again these products are often priced in the £20-30 per month range.

Major resources for UK broadband information are ADSLGuide and Broadband Zilla.

Since 2003 BT has been introducing SDSL to exchanges in many of the major cities. Services are currently offered at upload/download speeds of 256 kbit/s, 512 kbit/s, 1 Mbit/s or 2 Mbit/s. Unlike ADSL, which is typically 256 kbit/s upload, SDSL upload speeds are the same as the download speed. BT usually provide a new copper pair for SDSL installs, which can be used only for the SDSL connection. At a few hundred pounds a quarter, SDSL is significantly more expensive than ADSL, but is significantly cheaper than a leased line. SDSL is marketed to businesses and offers low contention ratios, and in some cases, a Service Level Agreement. At present, the BT Wholesale SDSL enablement programme has stalled, most probably due to a lack of uptake.

As of May 2006, Bulldog is advertising on TV their ADSL offer of 16Mb/s downlink for an "initial" £9.95/month.

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